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“ It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ”

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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

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I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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